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The Tripwires of Empire—NATO, Ukraine, Iran, and the Alliance Logic of 1914

  • Writer: Jeff Kellick
    Jeff Kellick
  • Feb 3
  • 1 min read

Contemporary Application to the Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever War - Ep. 04



This contemporary application episode connects the alliance dynamics traced in Episode 4 to current events in Ukraine and Iran. As peace talks continue in the UAE and the USS Abraham Lincoln positions off Iran’s coast, we examine how alliance commitments—NATO’s Article 5, the Russia-Iran strategic partnership, the Russia-North Korea mutual defense pact—create the same escalation dynamics that produced World War I. With 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers AWOL and President Trump threatening strikes “far worse” than Operation Midnight Hammer, the tripwires of empire are live. The founders’ warnings against entangling alliances have never been more relevant.

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